Word: heaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...THOU THE BRIDE-Christine Weston -Scribner ($2.50). A first novel, laid in Maine, plumb full of Balzacian characters: a violent-blooded patriarch, three bastards, two idiots, a miscellany of neurotics and misfits. In two generations their collective activities include a sex murder, several adulteries, a heap of frustrations and painful deaths, with only a gentle, all-forgiving girl named Fortune and leathery Grandmother Noakes to relieve the psychopathic shadows...
...hier in writing angry letters to the tribesmen demanding M. Tallerie's money. The tribesmen paid. Then, thinking they had been swindled, they sued. Last week a Paris court returned judgment in favor of the defendants, and the Black Lion came out on top of the heap. Indemnities: The Black Lion, $465; M. Tallerie, $116; Major Bréhier...
...only real fact to realize," said Finland's Minister to Stockholm Eljas Erkko, "is that war in Finland is still going on." All Europe's statesmen and all her journalists might be negotiating and writing about peace (see p.19) but in the heap of bricks that was Viipuri. along the Vuoksi where at least the surface of the ice was beginning to be spongy, above Lake Laatokka where the Finns say they came on a freezing, black-clad Russian holding up his arms and crying: "Don't shoot me! I'm a Russian capitalist": far north...
...volume, seem big even when they are small. Using low-keyed earth colors-burnt sienna, ochre, silver grey, black, dull red, dark green-and firm, concise lines, he strikes a sober balance between emotion and restraint. Savage as an air raid but far stiller is his Pogrom, a huddled heap of corpses lying quietly on a Torah scroll...
...tough guy of Boys Town, the flashy little hoofer of Babes in Arms, was going to have to interpret the boyhood of one of the most significant Americans who ever lived. Mickey Rooney was going to interpret a boy, who (like himself) began at the bottom of the American heap, (like himself) had to struggle, (like himself) won, but a boy whose main activity (unlike Mickey's) was investigating, inventing, thinking. Mickey Rooney not only had to make young Tom Edison plausible, he had to create the boyhood basis for a legendary manhood. He gave the role his most...